I’m happy you will have stable housing for the foreseeable future. From your previous posts, I wouldn’t say you romanticized homeless per se. I agree that your general attitude toward becoming unhoused was naive.

The overwhelming majority of people who are unhoused are not unhoused by choice. Consider yourself fortunate that your material circumstances have allowed for you to return to your home. I’m not trying to put a moral burden on you or obligating you to show gratitude to your parents. Though I am obligating you to use your material circumstances in a productive way to further the struggle of us as workers. Commiserating with a bunch of commies online is great and all. But like a lot of us say all the time, find ways of organizing around you. Join a PSL or DSA chapter, join protests against data centers or flock cameras or whatever the oppressive dejour is. Remember that any type of organizing is better than nothing. Book clubs, soup kitchens, running groups, quilting circles, anything. The important thing is building a foundation of community on top of which further labor and political organizing can be built.

I’m not trying to belittle your circumstances either. You’ve mentioned in the past how working for your parents’ business is a non-starter. Can you explain why that is? Can you envision a way of leveraging this opportunity for your benefit? (Not merely as a resume builder or networking opportunity, but as a means to fund yourself and exercise skills that are useful in other ways, such as organizing)

Actually this is very clever and based moved for Google. Notice how they only labeled the American side of the lake ‘America’? Checkmate, Drumpf.

The only “smart” feature that I find useful is an equatorial gear/mechanism. It turns your telescope with the rotation of the earth (or fancier ones can be set to turn with the earth plus another movement so you can track objects like the moon). Just look for that.

Camera mounts, specific lens, and filters can be great additions. None of those things are “smart.” Here’s a photo I got of the lunar eclipse the other night. I didn’t use an equatorial mount or filters because I was rushing and didn’t want to set it all up, just a camera mount, so I apologize for the quality.

I was looking at your other posts, and I’m excited for you taking on this medium. To me, oil pastels are fickle. I’ve never been able to get a good grasp on them. While you’re juggling how each color blends, you also have to judge how much pressure to use and how the layers of pastel interact. They are much more similar to oil paints in that way than drawing. I mean they are essentially frozen oil paints anyway.

So hey, imma say some shit about this piece because I’m too much of an art teacher to stop. All of this comes from love and admiration for you putting your work out there for others to see. That being said, I think there’s some interesting stuff going on here. There’s a bit of searching in the lower left swatch one, a little smudging at the top left of it, maybe an attempt at blending, that gives off a bit of unfamiliarity with the medium. A similar thing is going on with the tree, where the branch on the left becomes more vibrant as it interacts with the darker color underneath (it’s the white acting as a glaze over the navy). The base of the trunk is left kind of scumbled or unarticulated, which gives in an ungrounded feel, as if it’s anchored to the paper by only its branches and that flower. Im not trying to just critique your technical application of the pastels. I’m wondering if the poem this piece was based on would be illuminating to some of your choices. Is there a theme like that in the poem? Or perhaps I’m detecting a through-line of unfamiliarity, with both the medium and the poem, that deserves further investigation.

I would strongly suggest sitting down and really thinking critically about what you like about this piece and how your execution is informed by both the poem and the application of oil pastels. Ask yourself what you think is successful and why. And then replicate it. Again and again, until one piece feels no more precious than another.

Hey that’s not bad for just a phone lens! Kinda wild that these little rectangles can do shit like that.

Correct

Learning French.

Not sure I’d call that a hobby, but I can see where you’re coming from.

This meme (or something like it with the same misogynist tone) was shared in our teacher group chat last year while one of our coworkers was out on maternity leave. Her response, “I planned my maternity leave to end the same day as the beginning of summer break. And I’ll do it again.” I see nothing wrong with her plan.

Sounds like he wasn’t caught doing shit actually

What if the job was partying?

Not a conspiracy, historians already admitted it.

https://theonion.com/historians-admit-to-inventing-ancient-greeks-1819571808/

Oh okay, so no student loan forgiveness but this time with no kente cloth?!

Madagascar red owl.

Learn to French braid your own hair. Might not be long enough though. But your forearms will get jacked.

I can’t believe people are so heartless that they’d kill baby Hitler who had never done anything wrong.

Which is why I going back to moment that Hitler turned 18 so I can kill adult Hitler.

This is really throwing me for a loop. So defund the police and folx is Woke 1, and Woke 2 is keep police funding 95% the same and folks? And the right wing thinks the latter is tantamount to communism?

I mean yeah that tracks, but… what the hell does Woke 2 mean to the average American barista?

Can someone provide a coherent non-Hasan adjacent analysis of what Woke 2 is?

These answers are funny. And yes, the real true answer is after a billion years.

The less cool answer is that it’s a great opportunity to talk to your kids about bodily autonomy. You’re in control of how you want your body to look, same as your child. Obviously don’t say, “Well this makeup is trash. SEE YA! wipe wipe wipe” Maybe talk about what you like and what you don’t.

But remember that the actual answer is that you’re not allowed to wash it off.

The only Azula “redemption” I’d want to see is one where she’s an embittered old woman unwillingly meeting the avatar and slinging shade at Iroh’s memory because he was a war criminal. They had their chance to do this with her character in the Legend of Korra, but they chose to bring back Toph instead. I think Azula would have provided a much better analysis of Korra’s villains than Toph’s “they were all out of balance” liberal lamp shading.

But anyway, there’s tons of cases similar to that. It’s never easy.